1/ A decade ago, I debated tactics with a friend that worked for DC Democrats. She was a lovely person who died from Covid in 2020. Anyway, she liked to say that we needed to fight fire with water until the far right's fever broke. I fiercely retorted ... #ResistanceUnited #ONEV1
2/ that's what the Weimar Republic believed until it was too late. She claimed we could fix all with GOTV success. Folks, Dems have done remarkably well at the ballot box since 2017 despite gerrymandering. Yet our democracy is still being systematically dismantled at ...
3/ every level. Saving democracy means prevailing against a kind of asymmetrical warfare that's happening all over America. Yes, we must continue to organize and turn out voters. But we also need a strategy to mobilize and promote a non-violent but ferocious movement ...
4/ to save America from facism's metastasizing menace. Provocative civil disobedience, strikes, street protests. It's OK to be scared. I'm scared, too. What if I lose my job? What if these crazy sociopaths with AR-15s shoot me while protesting? What if they kill my family? ...
5/ Abolitionists and Civil Rights activists confronted similar fears. Freedom and democracy is not cheap or easy. It requires courageous integrity.
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2/ Truth is I needed a spiritual break from politics. I hadn't attended synagogue in weeks. My Financial Crimes Compliance job has been intense and I've prioritized activism over Shabbat.
But even activists with Vulcan avatars posting on toxic social media platforms are human.
3/ The one year anniversary of 10/7 is coming. It's also the season of Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur.
It is a season of both aspirational renewal as we celebrate a new year as well as self-reflection and atonement about how to become a better person.
1/ We now live in a world in which our mobile communication devices can be instruments of assassination. Meanwhile, SCOTUS ruled presidents have criminal immunity.
1/ United States of America collectively is suffering from generations of PTSD. As a nation we are simultaneously the cause as well as victims of self-inflicted terror.
2/ Within individuals, PTSD may stem from a continuing family history of alcoholism or spousal/parental/child abuse over generations.
If not family related, other causes such as sex predators, horrorific experiences from military combat or surviving a random catastrophic event.
3/ Those with PTSD are often not aware how it impacts their lives, social interactions or choices they make. Victims may be regulated by constant fear or violently triggered from sights, sounds, odors or even sitting in a dentist chair.
1/ I was 13 when I became an activist in the early 1980s. Sadly, as a kid, I quickly learned to fear houses hanging American flags.
Invariably, they were hostile to any issue I cared about.
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2/ This confused me as it was Democrat and liberal, John F. Kennedy that challenged us to, "Ask not what your country can do for you. Ask what you can do for your country."
What's forgotten about that iconic line is how JFK linked patriotism to freedom.
3/ Twenty years prior to JFK's inaugural, Democrat and liberal, Franklin Roosevelt defined his vision of American patriotic values in his "Four Freedoms" speech (see below).
He delivered that speech eleven months prior to Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor.
1/ Moses led ancient Israelites from bondage to the promised land's doorstep.
An aging Moses then handed the baton to Joshua, who crossed Israelites over to the land of milk and honey.
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2/ Someday, @JoeBiden's passing the baton to @KamalaHarris will be looked upon as we view the biblical reference to Moses and Joshua.
Joe Biden inherited a catastrophe. Our country's physical health, economy, institutions, and global alliances had to be stitched back together.
3/ A lizard brained sex predator and Russian intel asset seized power in 2016 and nearly crippled our country.
Under the depraved leadership of Trump's high LQ (Lizard Quotient), low IQ and EQ (Emotional Quotient) administration, America was sucking wind.
🧵Content of #LaborDayWeekend thread below is my opinion.
1/ Who were we? Who are we now? What shall we become?
Answer is most of us were and remain wage earners put at risk by our own prejudices. There is a better way.
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2/ Whether it was plantation overseers beating slaves to earn crumbs, factory workers, service industry wage earners or modern office drones getting their souls sucked dry in cubicles, our lives have always been rigged by elites rationing our freedom.
3/ Abolitionists, labor organizers, and civic minded patriots have often found themselves in a defensive crouch against those who exploit cultural and racial differences among America's diverse mosiac.
Why? To prevent an inclusive populist coalition from coming together.